Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; seven novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men, The Blazing World, and Memories of the Future, as well as six essay collections, Yonder; A Plea for Eros; Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting; Living, Thinking, Looking; A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women; Mothers, Fathers, and Others and several works of nonfiction including The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves and Ghost Stories, published in May 2026. Hustvedt has a PhD from Columbia University in English Literature and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction (2014). In 2019, she was awarded the European Essay Prize from the Charles Veillon Foundation for The Delusions of Certainty, an essay on the mind/body problem, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, The Sigourney Award for Psychoanalysis, and the Princess of Asturias Award in Spain for the body of her work. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages.